conversance
(ˈkɒnvəsəns)
[f. conversant: see -ance.]
The practice, state, or quality of being conversant (in its various senses).
| 1609 Heywood Rape Lucrece Wks. 1874 V. 194 Any thing according to my poore acquaintance and little conversance. 1836 New Monthly Mag. XLVI. 205 By conversance with the consummate refinement of life at Paris. 1885 Law Times LXXIX. 339/2 The mode..would seem to require more than ordinary skill and conversance with the law. |